Howdy,

What would a journey towards monk'dom be without a newbie question?

In my ongoing descovery of perl, I finally decided to tackle the whole OO side of the pie... in very small chunks.

Say for instance I've got a happy little piece of code such as:
{ package MyObject:
  sub doThat {
    my (%ARGS) = ( chew => 'meat',
      @_);
    return 'I like '.$ARGS{chew).'!'."\n";
  }
}

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Now I was expecting to be able to go MyObject->doThat(chew=>'bananas') and recieve 'I like bananas!'.
But instead I get 'I like meat!'.

Normally the @_ should overwrite the default value, right?

What's so different with package/object dodads?

Oh where have I strayed from the enlightened path?

In reply to Passing a list to an Object by lzcd

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